The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-13

brotner VINO SITS quietly and allows
himsslf elected and theu allows any
other than providential hindrance
to prevent his attendance betrays
sacred trust.
Bishop Hendrix is expected to
fix the time and hold the district
conference Brethren will please
have their bishop fund IN hand by
that time. The Re. Lewis R. Amis
will receive and receipt for it.
note decided improvement 10
the spiritual state of the church."
Prayer meetings in some places well
attended and doing good. There is
considerable increase in the mum
Der who hold prayers in their FAINT
lies. Moral discipline is being en-
forced. 1t is time for men who
have set at defiance the discipline
of their church for years to know
that the church proposes to help
those who make an effort to help
themselves. and not those whose
only virtue seems to promise re-
form. Read Gal. 6 Is. Matt. Is
Is II; Discipline, page l54-l5S, sec.
ton v, g 125, 6, Z. Besure to read
in the order | have directed. ] wan
to put in word on pastoral visit
ing. All my preachers viii read it.
None of them will be damaged by
its suggestion. Brethren, there is
complaint. And while | have no
patience with censorious element
to be found in every charge, yet
there are cases of absolute neglect
coming to my personal observation.
Believing that you, having your at
tention called t, this fact, in an en-
tirely impersoual way, will profit by
it, | merely suggest: When pas
tor has members of easy access,
| and to whom he has paid no visit
| at all in year, or not more than
one or two visits, there is danger of
neglect. Especially is this true if
that family is in humble circam-
stances, with but poor facilities for
attending divine services. The
wealthy who are pious had rather
see US care for Gods poor, and
minister TO their spiritual wants, if
need be in their novels of poverty,
though We, by so doing, make them
no visit at all, than see the poor
neglected by US Besides, brethren:
The human heart is q book of a
thousand leaves and every leaf
crowded with data for sermon
Data with out which no mans ser
mon isscomplete, be his sermon new
er so bookish. Diptheria with its
awful white deposit; mcmbranous
Group with its hoarse cough and
suffocation; pneumonia with its
burning fever, and all that sorrows
a heart and saddens a home, these
furnish some of our best para
graphs by calling us to the bedside
of sorrow, and the study Of tho
book Of human life. Read this
book. But, my brethren, there is
still deeper significance in this
work of pastoral visiting. Some
heart may be open to us, and to
our Master there that may be clos
ed against US elsewhere and forever.
What pastor is there who does no.
revert with pleasure to the time
and place, where by his pasto-
raj attention and ministration he
comforted the heart of sorrowing
poverty, stricken saint or brought
a soul to God on the verge of the
grave2-
A word to Pensioners, Our
pastors are but men. Do not ex-
pect them to be insensibIe to your
disparagements and complaints
The hardest work preacher has
to perform is to 60 where his name
has ten been cast out as evil and
minister in holy things. Some OF
the greatest complainers Of pastoral
neglect comes from those who have
never hesitated to cast odium on
the ministry. Be kind to your
preachers. Sympathize with them.
Their work is delicate and difficult
See that they share of your sub
stance, your prayers and your kline
words. May heaven crown the year
1887 with thousands of soul:
brought to christ in Columbia dis
| trict